patched up
Example Sentences
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Yet by the next day reporters were working from home; broken glass was replaced; laptops sourced; the sixth-floor newsroom patched up.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
He has been inundated with customers wanting to have old bikes patched up.
From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026
Those holes on both lines might’ve been patched up through the portal before.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025
The Florida senator, 53, went on to back his rival and the two patched up their relationship during Trump's first term.
From BBC • Nov. 11, 2024
But our mechanics always just patched up the outsides, tuned up the insides, and then repainted them Marine Corps camouflage green.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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